...nd the lifelong and heroic literary labours of the ancients.
Thoreau translated the and tried his hand at Pindar.
His pages are sown with classical allusions and quotations.
The sunset at Cape Cod brings a line of Homer into his memory with a rush, as the shining torch of the sun falls into the ocean.
He has words of just appreciation for Anacreon.
His odes
charm us by their serenity ...